My Oscar Nominee Projections

I guess there hasn't really been too much film discussion on this blog before, but here we go:

Best Picture:
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Atonement
Sweeney Todd
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Best Director(s):
Coen Bros. for NCfOM
Paul Thomas Anderson for TWBB
Joe Wright for Atonement
Tim Burton for Sweeney Todd
Julian Schnabel for Diving Bell

Best Original Screenplay:
Juno by Diablo Cody
Michael Clayton by Tony Gilroy
The Savages by Tamara Jenkins
Lars and the Real Girl by Nancy Oliver
Ratatouille by Brad Bird

Best Adapted Screenplay:
No Country for Old Men by the Coen Bros.
There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson
Atonement by Christopher Hampton
Charlie Wilson's War by Aaron Sorkin
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Ronald Harwood

Best Actor in a Leading Role:
Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood
Viggo Mortensen for Eastern Promises
George Clooney for Michael Clayton
James MacAvoy for Atonement
Johnny Depp for Sweeney Todd

Best Actress in a Leading Role:
Julie Christie for Away From Her
Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose
Ellen Page for Juno
Angelina Jolie for A Mighty Heart
Keira Knightley for Atonement

Best Actor in a Supporting Role:
Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men
Casey Affleck for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Tom Wilkinson for Michael Clayton
Philip Seymour Hoffman for Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook for Into the Wild

Best Actress in a Supporting Role:
Cate Blanchett for I'm Not There
Amy Ryan for Gone Baby Gone
Sairose Ronan for Atonement
Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton
Vanessa Redgrave for Atonement

Best Cinematography:
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Roger Deakins
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Janusz Kaminski
There Will Be Blood - Robert Elswit
No Country for Old Men - Roger Deakins
Atonement - Seamus McGarvey

Best Original Score:
Atonement - Dario Marianelli
Eastern Promises - Howard Shore
Ratatouille - Michael Giacchino
There Will Be Blood - Jonny Greenwood
3:10 to Yuma - Marco Beltrami

Actual Oscar nominations will be released about 25 hours from this instant, at 5:30 AM on Tuesday, January 22, 2008. Yes, I will be up at that time to watch the nominations live. That will be awesome.

Salvare's personal top movies of 2007 (in no particular order):
Gone Baby Gone
3:10 to Yuma
Atonement
No Country for Old Men

Honorable mentions: Eastern Promises and There Will Be Blood

So you get a feel for other movies I like, 2006's Top Four movies were (in no particular order except The Fountain as 1st): The Fountain, Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth, and The Prestige.